Freedom: A Fable [RARE 1997 1ST EDITION WITH ALL POP-UPS & THE RARE, ORIGINAL NORTON FAMILY GIFT POSTCARD LAID IN – FINE COPY]

BOOK DESCRIPTION: The Peter Norton Family, Carlsbad, Ca., 1997. Hardcover, leather bound. First Edition, First Printing. Limited Edition of 4000 copies. Subtitled "A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times". Size: 7¾" - 9¾. With all 5 pop-up, die-cut foldouts. Also includes the rare, original Norton Family gift postcard laid in. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, bright, tight, clean copy with a small bit of wear to lower spine front corner, all pop ups in excellent condition and a Fine postcard. Taking the form of a children s pop-up book, Freedom: A Fable transforms Kara Walker s monumental cut-paper silhouettes into a hand-held object. The work s title is a double entendre. The fable is not only the book s form but also its politics namely, the dark irony of the promise deferred of freedom, amid the failures of Reconstruction. The viewer holds the narrative in their hands, literally controlling the movement of bodies and scenes that animate the dark history of the American Civil War and its aftermath, and the story of one woman s hope. Freedom follows the thoughts and actions of a newly emancipated woman about to embark to her new world, in this case Liberia.